“I can’t help thinking since we just celebrated the Fourth of July and we’re supposed to be a country dedicated to liberty that one of the most pervasive political movements going on outside Washington today is the disciplined, passionate, determined effort of Republican governors and legislators to keep most of you from voting next time,” Clinton said at Campus Progress’s annual conference in Washington.

“There has never been in my lifetime, since we got rid of the poll tax and all the Jim Crow burdens on voting, the determined effort to limit the franchise that we see today,” Clinton added.

Clinton mentioned Florida Gov. Rick Scott’s move in March to overturn past state precedent — including under former GOP governors — that allows convicted felons to vote once they’ve served they’ve finished probation periods.

“Why should we disenfranchise people forever once they’ve paid their price?” Clinton said. “Because most of them in Florida were African Americans and Hispanics who tended to vote for Democrats. That’s why.”

DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz recently got in trouble for making a similar comparison, though she did use the dreaded L-word in asserting Republicans wanted to "literally drag us all the way back to Jim Crow laws."

Another Liberal canard. Too much of a burden on the poor to provide I.D. to register and to vote. That is pure B.S. One has to provide identification to do practically anything in life today. It is NOT a big deal and should be formalized as an absolute requirement. Maybe then the "early and often" methods of the demoncrats can be mitigated?

Republicans know they're a dying breed. Their legacy is how much money they can't take with them when they die, not children. They can't compete with Balcks and Hispanics, so they will try to disenfranchise them. Pitifully obvious ploy that won't work.

Republicans know they're a dying breed. Their legacy is how much money they can't take with them when they die, not children. They can't compete with Blacks and Hispanics, so they will try to disenfranchise them. Pitifully obvious ploy that won't work.

voter surpression is the latest tool in the Republican toolkit. now that its been made harder for Republican operatives to hack into computers and register negative votes in key regions of florida (crooks that they are), the have now legislated voter surpression.

Its a national trend, given that Ohio and other states have been, unfortunately successful, in passing these laws. And for those you who posted that an ID litmus test makes sense, you deserve nothing less than to be placed in a time machine back to the early 1900's and be made to live the life of a black person or a woman to understand the meaning and essence of voter surpression, discrimination and downright undemocratic practices.

If you think identity theft is bad now...just wait until we are all required to show it to vote! As a victim of identity theft, I had to send my own finger prints in to the government just to apply for a job. So, if we want a normal human being to win any elections, we better get ready for all hell to break loose and probably start acting and dressing like "Father knows best" characters again. NOT!!!!!! Ignorance is so much easier for the right wingers! So tragic!

In NM where I live, Socialist/democratic "front" organizations, aka "community organizers", have been striving for at least a decade to register illegal immigrants and others who do not qualify to vote because they know they will vote Socialist democratic. Along with the Democrat Party, they strenuously oppose requiring persons to display a picture ID when accessing their ballot - because these illegal registrants generally do not have them.

Democracy can only function until the mob realizes it can vote itself the public purse.

I think the franchise should be limited to those who can demonstrate that they paid significant federal, state, and/or local taxes, including property taxes, or who can pay a poll tax. The details as to what amounts are appropriate are a waste of time to discuss, as this concept has no chance of adoption - because the mob does indeed control both the public purse and the political apparatus throughout the USA, and can play the racism card or a number of other Socialist canards to shout down anyone proposing reasonable voting procedural reforms - since they cannot argue persuasively against them.